[68skylark]

I'm glad we never took advice like this when things got tough during the Revloutionary War, or the Civil War, or WWI, or WWII, or . . . .

Well you get the idea.

[biblewonk]

I'm glad we never took advice like this when things got tough during the Revloutionary War, or the Civil War, or WWI, or WWII, or . . . .

Poor comparisons. How about if we put soldiers in Israel and dare Palistinians to blow us up and just stay there until the "threat" is gone. Some things really are futile.

[LS]

There have been 13 major "insurgencies/insurrections" since 1945, most of them far better supported by the USSR than the Islamofascists are. Of these 13, the "government" has won 10. In other words, these inurgencies don't usually work . . . HOWEVER each of these took at least 5 years, and some 10, to win.

The natural yearning for every human heart is liberty, and the Iraqis are no different.

[Wolfhound777]

I'm glad we never took advice like this when things got tough during the Revloutionary War, or the Civil War, or WWI, or WWII, or . . . .

He wasn't giving advice and there is a lot of truth to what he says. If they don't care about freedom, the hell with them. It also has nothing to do with the going getting tough, the key point he is making is that we are not making the going tough on our enemies. We are not letting them know that they are defeated. This is a huge point, and if you consider the culture in the cesspool out here, you will know that force and strenght mean everything. Anything else is considered weakness and the islamic nut jobs will exploit it. We either kill them all or get the F#$k out. I am sick of our guys dying while we play politics and try to be the nice guy to a bunch of subhuman terrorists and thugs.